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Spanish singer (1864-1946)
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2021-03-26 10:23:16
Spanish opera site founder, 58, dies of Covid
María Adela Estévez Campos, singer and editor of ‘Diario Lírico’, died last week in her home town La Coruna after four months in hopital with Covid-19, complicated by her underlying rheumatoid arthritis. Mariela founded Diario Lirico in 2014 and published 4,500 stories. The site has now shut.
2020-10-10 19:28:00
The Center at West Park (NYC) Presents ENSEMBLE PI: REPARATIONS NOW! A concert honoring Black Lives Matter, Streaming from Thursday, October 29 at 7 p.m.
[…] Civil Rights Movement, and Black Lives Matter. The music moves into a section expressing the hope and optimism felt by Black Americans but also the looming and inevitable attack from white supremacy. It suggests that history will repeat itself and putting an end to this abuse is a much needed and overdue form of reparations. Conversatión a distancia (2020) by Puerto Rican-born composer/multi-instrumentalist Angélica Negrón is inspired by Conversación, a danza from Puerto Rican composer, Juan Morel Campos (1857-1896). Using field recordings from Ponce, where Campos was born, the piece is also motivated by the composer’s personal realization of the erasure of Afro-latinx in Puerto Rico, Latin America and the diaspora, and the histories lost along the way. With Pinkster Kings (2020), composer Trevor Weston delves into the little-known Afro-Dutch traditions in New York and New jersey in the 17th-19th centuries. During the colonial period, the Dutch celebration of Pentecost led to […]
2019-09-14 14:06:00
[…] the Wissenschaftkolleg zu Berlin: ‘Today my laundry basket got lost. It was last since standing in front of the dryer. Since it is pretty difficult to carry the laundry without it I’d be most happy to get it back.’ The other two texts employed are an extract from Nietzsche’s Gay Science, its Wanderer message full of association for anyone vaguely acquainted with German Romanticism, and a poem by Fernando Pesso (under the pseudonym, Álvaro de Campos),’ ‘Todas as cartas de amor são ridículas’ (‘All love-letters are ridiculous’). According to the composer, these are ‘three only seemingly incompatible texts’. ‘Stripped of their pathos-laden, poetic and profane diction,’ they are despatched by: … the same sound-source – a soprano voice singing ‘in whatever way’ – into a intervallically ever-changing field of sound, reverberation and movement. Calling out, playfully, ‘warbling’ and lamenting arioso: they interrupt and pervade one another, thus marking out […]
2018-11-17 02:12:00
Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago at Frost Art Museum FIU
[…] opens up a dialogue about global commonalities rather than differences, from ecological changes to societal values around the world.” Nearly seventy works by Caribbean painters, installation artists, sculptors, photographers, video and performance artists connect through ideas that go beyond language barriers, politics, and historic colonial divides. Artists in Relational Undercurrents include:Allora & Calzadilla, Edouard Duval-Carrie, Adler Guerrier, Deborah Jack, Glenda Leon, Beatriz Santiago Munoz, Angel Otero, Manuel Pina, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Jimmy Robert and Didier William, among others. Features more than 67 contemporary artists with roots in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Curacao, Aruba, Saint Maarten, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Trinidad, Jamaica, The Bahamas, Barbados and Saint Vincent. Departing from the premise that the concept of Latin America favors mainland countries, the exhibition proposes a mapping of the region that begins with the islands. […]
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